They did type me as a horror writer, but I have been able to do all sorts of things within that framework.

Since we don't know where we're going, we have to stick together in case someone gets there.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum

The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.

The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt

She knows exactly what I like and what it does to me. She worships my body in its entirety and I allow it—I crave it.

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

Empathy is the antidote to shame.

Never for one minute am I like, 'My husband, the white man, and our biracial children.' I never think about it.

When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.

Charonte are guarding a Dimme? Is the world coming to an end and I missed the memo? (Stryker)

(Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become the very bedrock of our being.

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.